Evaluation Resources

This report covers five advisory technical assistance aimed at ensuring the absorptive capacity and ability of the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Mongolia to implement road projects. It also covers a regional technical assistance study to update road design and construction standards in these three countries.

This technical assistance (TA) performance audit report covers the performance of six TA projects for strengthening the audit capability of the office of the auditor general, or its equivalent, in 12 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

This report covers six technical assistance projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan, all financed by ADB from the Japan Special Fund, to (i) rationalize policies, strategies, and programs; (ii) strengthen the institutional capabilities of concerned agencies; (iii) improve education administration management and finance; and (iv) address priority needs in improving the relevance and responsiveness of the education sector in the medium and long term.

In the early 1990s, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) began its collaboration with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to support the latter’s attempts to develop and modernize urban infrastructure. This report covers six advisory TA grants provided to PRC for urban development. 

This technical assistance (TA) performance audit report covers eight advisory TAs approved in the 1990s, involving nine institutions in four Pacific DMCs—-the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, and Vanuatu.

This report assesses two technical assistance projects on the financing of social services, one in Viet Nam and another in Sri Lanka. It identifies lessons and insights for ADB’s operations in social sectors.

Three advisory technical assistance (TA) grants were selected for evaluation in this TA performance audit report, which reflected efforts to improve management of the physical infrastructure (particularly road networks) and the institutional capacity in Viet Nam and Cambodia.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided 14 technical assistance (TA) grants to build evaluation capability in seven of its developing member countries (DMCs). For this report, six TAs implemented in Nepal, Philippines, and Sri Lanka were assessed, the ratings of which had mixed results.

This technical assistance performance audit report is the first operations evaluation report on selected technical assistance (TA) interventions on road safety. The evaluation includes three TAs: Regional Initiatives in Road Safety, Preparation of a Road Safety Program in the People's Republic of China, and Road Safety in India.

The report assesses a series of advisory technical assistance (TA) and project preparatory TA interventions focusing on institutional development and organizational or financial reform of Bangladesh Railway.